Poll: Please post here negatives you have found with Vista

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Please do not list problems, but only facts: which options are missed or
excluded from Vista
General:
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1. Cannot drag and drop files into cmd window
2. Cannot drag and drop menus from Start > Programs into Quick Launch folder
3. Shutdown default options do not include: Restart and Switch User option.

Vista Mail:
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missing options:
1.I do not wish to be notified with each junk email arrival!!!!!
2.
The same for the Systray new mail notification icon.
3.
Read receipts settings in Options should be available separately for each
account.
Very often one mail account is set as a business account (I need to receive
the read receipts from it) and another account is private account where read
requests are not needed.

Jack
 
Disk Defragmenter:
Slow
No legend
No progress bar
No estimated time left

Sound recorder:
Very basic - no option but to record and save - oh well, I use Audacity now
for sound recording

Windows Media Player 11:
No option of editing tag information through the playlist - you have to go
to the library
No option to easily view album information anymore
Visualizations are slow - both on XP and Vista, but they're slower on Vista.
Visualizations in WMP10 were much faster and smoother.
mfpmp.exe eats way too many resources - 10% of my CPU and 20MB of RAM all
the time when WMP11 is running and playing the correct file types that makes
mfpmp run.

Appearance:
The ugly black title bar when maximized in Aero Glass
The lack of Luna or Royale - I'd personally like to see a white, silver, and
black version of the Royale appearance for Vista.

Customization:
No option that I can find to turn off or on hibernation
No option of specifying how much HD space System Restore can use anymore
No option to automatically logon anymore that I can find
Only one choice for those users who want to run Vista Basic - the light,
pale blue.

Setting up the network is more complicated. In XP, there was a wizard to
walk you through it, in Vista, you have to use the complicated Network
Center (once you find it of course) that also turns password protection on
by default, which is a pain in the you know what (not to mention the major
bugs I've encountered with the networking in Vista - since you don't want
the bugs, I won't mention them), and I have to change my workgroup name in
the system properties.
 
Dido on the Disk Defrag. My initial defrag after upgrading to RC1 5600, took
over 2 hours. In XP my weekly defrag took about 15-20 minutes.
FYI, I'm on a Dell 600M laptop, with a Celeron 1.4GB processor, 40GB HD and
1GB of RAM.
 
"thbjr(removethis)@hotmail.com"
Dido on the Disk Defrag. My initial defrag after upgrading to RC1 5600,
took
over 2 hours. In XP my weekly defrag took about 15-20 minutes.
FYI, I'm on a Dell 600M laptop, with a Celeron 1.4GB processor, 40GB HD
and
1GB of RAM.
Click to expand...

In Vista defrag is designed to be an automated background task hence lack of
UI options. It uses low-priority I/O so you can continue your normal work
while defrag is running. If you need more options, use command-line
interface - defrag.exe.
 
....and another thing. Since I am the only user on my laptop, where is the
need for those annoying USER ACCOUNT CONTROL "Windows needs your permission
to continue" pop-up windows??? I found you can turn that option off in
Control Panel/User accounts/Turn User Account Control on or off, but what is
the point of it if there is only 1 user account on the computer?
 
You haven't got a clue, do you, as to why ACL is in the system?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"thbjr(removethis)@hotmail.com"
 
Pardon me. That is UAC. Do you know what it is there for?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"thbjr(removethis)@hotmail.com"
 
thbjr(removethis)@hotmail.com said:
...and another thing. Since I am the only user on my laptop, where is the
need for those annoying USER ACCOUNT CONTROL "Windows needs your permission
to continue" pop-up windows??? I found you can turn that option off in
Control Panel/User accounts/Turn User Account Control on or off, but what is
the point of it if there is only 1 user account on the computer?
Click to expand...

Malware (viruses, spyware, et cetera) usually - and, on previous versions of
Windows, silently - performs questionable actions during installation,
propagation, and operation. The prompt is intended to give the user a way to
detect such operations and prevent them from occurring. This may prevent
some malware from operating without the user's knowledge.
 
HeXX, YOU don't even know what it is!
I've been following the reports.
Memory Hog. Slow as molasses in winter.
Use it twice and buy new.
Oh, yeah, and bets are high you've got spyware built in to talk back to
Gate's replacement.

After the fiasco of WGA and that odd bit about "notify", then ramming
updates past our settings, this one fixes it for us.

When XP dies, we will no longer be using ANYTHING from Gates and Co.

Fairly certain the EU will make sure there is a viable option.
 
I answered a post specifically about UAC. Your response to me has what to do
with the same?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
: "No option that I can find to turn off or on
hibernation"

Here's how to turn hibernation off.
1/ Open a Command prompt

2/ At the command prompt type: powercfg -H off
 
OK, so it is trying to protect me from installing something that may not be
what it claims to be. That's a good thing, I guess, but why does it repeat
itself every time I try to do the same task in a program. Take AVG. If I want
to run a manual update, it ask pemission. For the first update, OK, but for
any subsuquent manual update, perhaps the UAC should be tweeked to recognise
that I don't need to give permission for the 2nd - 999th manual update.
Perhaps a check box in the UAC permission box that allows/indicates
permission for the program being questioned is no longer needed?
 
And what if something gets on your system that emulates AVG.

If "you" have not initiated AVG yourself, but all of a sudden you get a
popup asking to allow it, do you want THAT to go through automatically? I
sure wouldn't! I would want to investigate the request first before I
allowed it to happen.

That is what UAC is all about. It is a little bit of inconvenience for a lot
more security than Windows XP offers.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"thbjr(removethis)@hotmail.com"
 
Thanks.
I believe it's already off on my computer because it's not in my options of
shut-down choices.
Secondly, why are they making some things such as this less user friendly?
 
You haven't got a clue, do you, as to why ACL is in the system?
Regards,
Richard Urban

then:

Pardon me. That is UAC. Do you know what it is there for?
Regards,
Richard Urban

:

I answered a post specifically about UAC. Your response to me has what to do
with the same?

Regards,
Richard Urban

If it's so confusing an MVP can't keep it straight?

Funny thing about what you put in print.
It's there for all to see.
 
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